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Monday, 6 January 2014

New Year Decorating

Happy New Year! Are your Christmas decorations still up? Sadly, I have to admit that many of mine are still on display. I don't think that I can take all of the blame though as I live with an overgrown man child who prefers that they stay up until Valentine's Day. I think that, last year, by the time he consented to get rid of the Christmas tree (and only because I pointed out that it had become a fire hazard), it was so dry that branches and pine needles were snapping off at the merest touch. I find that decorating after the holidays is a bit tricky. Everything seems so boring and blah after the glamour of holiday decor. It's too early for Spring themes when we are being lashed by snowstorms galore yet Winter themes feel tired and redundant. With a nod to Winter, I have a huge crystal bowl filled with pinecones and dried citrus fruit set out on the dining table. I thrifted the bowl just before Christmas.

I think it might be by Lasisepat as it looks really similar to their cactus vase. It doesn't look like a cactus to me though. I think the wavy rim looks more like icicles or icy stalagmites and reminds me of the wintry freeze outside. What do you think? I tucked glass glitter birds in amongst the pinecones as I wanted a bit of Wintry sparkle. Do you see them peeking out?

One of the things I love about the New Year is cracking open a new daily planner or diary. I know that the thing to do nowadays is to record appointments on a smartphone or Ipad but I'm adamantly oldfashioned in this regard. I prefer jotting things down in a daily planner. I noticed that a lot of things were selling out way ahead of Christmas and Boxing Day. I think, because we had a severe ice storm and there are still a lot of people without electricity, there was a bit of a siege mentality going on. Usually I am able to nab a Moleskine planner on Boxing Day but this time I got it before Christmas as it was the last one at my local bookstore.

Only a few clementines left! We picked up the last box of clementines at the local grocery store on Christmas Eve. I couldn't believe that it was the last box as usually there is a giant mountain of them at this time of year. I put the clementines in a vintage Boda Nova bowl. Love the clean simple lines, wafer thin walls and the accompanying cork trivet.
Having fresh flowers in the house is an expensive luxury especially at this time of year. So I compromised by having a few leafy cuttings snipped from the hedges outside. I popped them into a vintage Iittala Savoy vase thrifted just before Christmas.

I had been on the lookout for this vase for a while as I loved the organic shape of it. I think it is the smallest size available which suits me fine as a few sprigs looks perfect in it. No need to worry about trying to arrange a giant mass of flowers.

I love juxtaposing different eras and styles. I have tried to keep to one style or era but have found that it doesn't work for me. I prefer the layered look. It amuses me to place the clean lines of a Scandinavian vase against a pile of weathered old books. How do you approach decorating? Do you have a specific style that you adhere to? Let me know how your Winter decorating, post holidays, is going!

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Welcome to L'Heure Bleue At Home. I'm Chloe. Please join me so that we can celebrate milestones together as we embark on a journey of self-discovery into living a simple, intentional life. It's all about slow living in a fast city.